data theft

Despite the majority of companies experiencing or anticipating significant cost and business disruption due to a material data breach, they still struggle to take the proper …

Large-scale financial cybercrime and state-affiliated espionage dominated the security landscape in 2012, according to a new Verizon report. Taking the top spot for all …

NewSeaSims, a website where Sims players can download custom content for their characters, has suffered a breach which resulted in the compromise of registered users’ …

Safetica Technologies has launched Safetica 5, the newest version of its Data Leak Protection/monitoring suite, which prevents “human factor” issues that can lead …

25-year-old LulzSec hacker Cody Kretsinger (aka “recursion”) has been sentenced to spend one year in prison for his involvement in the Sony Pictures Entertainment …

A global study of consumer attitudes towards company stewardship of personal data conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit shows that data breaches can cause major damage …

Gottfrid Svartholm, one of the founders of The Pirate Bay, has been charged along with three other men with hacking into several Swedish agencies and firms and stealing (or …

Linode, the web hosting provider that (among others) provides a home for Internet security resource sites Insecure.Org, Nmap.Org, SecLists.Org, and SecTools.Org, has announced …

Popular US supermarket chain Schnucks has announced on Monday that some 2.4 million credit and debit cards used at 79 of its 100 stores may have been compromised during a four …

Personal and financial information belonging to users of two big Japanese web portals has been compromised earlier this week, Computerworld reports. On Tuesday evening, Yahoo …

Players of The War Z, a first-person zombie survival game, have been notified of a breach of the developer’s (Hammerpoint Interactive) forum and game databases and the …

The results of a survey conducted by the American Chamber of Commerce in China which polled 325 respondents currently doing business throughout the republic has shown that a …